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Uncontacted Tribes
Was reading that there are at least 100 or so uncontacted tribes in Brazil and in the Amazon. That in itself is just fascinating and beautiful...but the article I read had video and photos.
So, should we be buzzing the villages of uncontacted tribes in big scary noisy helicopters? The photos showed the men of the tribe with spears, bow and arrows pointed at the copter, so I'm sure they had to be totally freaked out by such a thing circling their village!
If we are buzzing and doing low fly overs on their village, then they really an "uncontacted tribe"?
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| May 30, 2008, 12:18 |
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Re: Uncontacted Tribes
QUOTE (Chazzy @ May 30, 2008, 12:18)Was reading that there are at least 100 or so uncontacted tribes in Brazil and in the Amazon. That in itself is just fascinating and beautiful...but the article I read had video and photos.
So, should we be buzzing the villages of uncontacted tribes in big scary noisy helicopters? The photos showed the men of the tribe with spears, bow and arrows pointed at the copter, so I'm sure they had to be totally freaked out by such a thing circling their village!
If we are buzzing and doing low fly overs on their village, then they really an "uncontacted tribe"?
that' what i was wonderin'. If ya find 'em aren't they technically contacted? 
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| May 30, 2008, 17:23 |
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Re: Uncontacted Tribes
I bloody well hope contact is limited to sightings from a helicopter.
The sad thing is, civilised society has an annoying habit of trying to make ground contact with tribes like these, and when you couple this with the inherent deforestation in the amazon which has infiltrated some tribe's territories... their very survival can be threatened.
Us 'squeeky clean' westerners can introduce many diseases into a protected society.... and deforestation also unleashes millions of bacteria and viruses laying dormant in the land. So a once healthy populous can soon find itself struggling... while the chainsaws and nosey 'ologists' disappear in an oblivious puff of ignorance.
Leave them alone I say.
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Re: Re: Uncontacted Tribes
QUOTE (Innocentivory @ May 30, 2008, 17:50)I bloody well hope contact is limited to sightings from a helicopter.
The sad thing is, civilised society has an annoying habit of trying to make ground contact with tribes like these, and when you couple this with the inherent deforestation in the amazon which has infiltrated some tribe's territories... their very survival can be threatened.
Us 'squeeky clean' westerners can introduce many diseases into a protected society.... and deforestation also unleashes millions of bacteria and viruses laying dormant in the land. So a once healthy populous can soon find itself struggling... while the chainsaws and nosey 'ologists' disappear in an oblivious puff of ignorance.
Leave them alone I say.
yeah, what he said, Although i love finding out about these ppl, we wind up ruining all that they have.
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| May 30, 2008, 18:54 |
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Re: Uncontacted Tribes
I read the story on Yahoo yesterday too and although the pictures were fascinating I could not help but feel for these people. They had to be so frightened when the helecopter flew over.  I sincerely hope that we do not go in there and corrupt their civilazation. That would be a very sad thing. 
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